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Inexpensive variable rep-rate source for high-energy, ultrafast lasers

  • US 7,483,204 B2
  • Filed: 12/20/2007
  • Issued: 01/27/2009
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/14/2003
  • Status: Expired due to Term
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1. A combination comprising:

  • a light source;

    a modulator arranged to receive an output of said light source and outputting pulses having a pulse width of less than or equal to approximately 10 ns at a repetition rate in a range of from 1 kHz to less than 10 MHz;

    an amplifier arranged to amplify pulses output by said modulator; and

    a fiber with net positive group-velocity dispersion (GVD) and self phase modulation receiving an output of said amplifier and spectrally broadening said pulses.

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